The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

JAY GoULDs telegraph company owns enough
wire to stretch to the moon and back.
HENRY WARD BEEcHEK's library is found to
contain copy of his novel, Norwood"
THEY trying hard at Sing Sing to infuse
little decency into Ferdinand Ward by making a
printer of him.
DR. SWAN n. BURNETT, the husband of Fran
tes Hodgson Burnett is keeping bachelors hall
in Washington. Dr. Burnett is a native of Ten
nessee man of ability and artistic tastes
DURING the Arthur administration Mrs. w E.
Chandler, wife of the Senatorelect from New
Hampshire, was of the prominent social
lights. She is a brunette, ardent and impulse
and is Mr.. Chambers second wife.
ADIRONDACK MURRAY has new freak. He
is trying to get up big yachting boom for Lake
Champlain, W. '"h has thousand miles of coast
line, and is des. ned, he believes, to be popu
lar for yachting as the Adirondack region is for
camping, cunning and fishing.
THE first pilgrimage to Garibaldis tomb. at
Caprera, came off about two weeks ago, and five
steamers were required to convey the pilgrims.
An interesting incident was the willingness of
the first and second class passengers to join with
the third class travellers at a common table
QUITE a number of persons crossed the Ar
kansas river the other day at Garden City to see
a herd of buffalo now grazing on the prairies.
There about thirty young calves and or
two cows in the herd. The owner intends
making an effort to cross them with domestic
cattle.
MRS CLEVELAND. it is said, prefers Mrs Villas
to the other matrons of the Cabinet This is to
a great extent owing tc the fact that Mrs. Villas
is the youngest of the Cabinet wives. She is a
quiet even-temf ered woman. very pleasing in
personal appearance and not unlike Mrs Cleve-
land in character. strong friendship has
grown up between the two.
OF the men of New York who can Justly lay
claim in this life. the following do not
drink, smoke chew: Chauncey NJ. Depew,
Jay Gould, Russell Sage, Cyrus w. Field, Henry
Clews. Stephen V. White. Commodore Bateman.
Collector Magone, Washington E. Conner and
John D. Slayback. Many Others of almost
equal influence, use tobacco but do not drink.
IT is said that the mother of DR.. McGlynn
left in her will bequest to the Little Sisters of
the Poor, and that the money never paid
over them. DR.. McGlynp. being asked
about it by reporter of the New York Star. ad-
mitted that his mothers bequest had never been
paid, and that it was none of the Stars business
Another bequest left to aged priests also remains
unpaid.
WHARTON B. BRoADwATER who has been at
tending the Baltimore Dental College. has re-
turned to his home at Temperarceville Va,
in a sadly demented condition. The wreck of
bis reason is ascribed chiefly to excessive of
cigarettes. Although the young man is not vio-
lent, it is thought he will have to be removed to
some asylum. There are small hopes of his
covery.
THOMAS STARR MING was one or the aDIeSG
and most eloquent ministers of San Francisco at
the breaking out of the civil war; and his earn
est appeals did much to crush out and destroy
the phantom of a Pacific republic and to keep
California close to the heart of the Union He
now sleeps in Lone Mountain. and it is proposed
to erect in Golden Gate lark a fitting monument
to his memory.
JOSEPH A. SHERMAN, "the boy lecturer of
Youngstown, o." is denounced an impostor
by the secretary of the Young Mems Christian
Association of that city. Sherman has been
delivering lecture on 1.-The Inspiration of the
Bible" which he stole bodily from lecture de-
lvered before the Massachusetts Annual conven-
ton of Young Mems Christian Associations, at
Spencer, in 1881.
THERE is story of musician and an emf
nent surgeon who met ono evening at a social
entertainments. The Surgeon said to the musical
genius: "Of course you have brought your vio-
lin" mo. | have not" said the musician"
''But you not going to play or do something
to add to the entertainment of Mrs. Blanks
guestsP asked the eurgeon. II had not thought
of it" said the violnist but If you will cut off
leg, L will play something
EDWARD KING writes from Paris that he
knows personally that all the rumors concern
ing General Boulanper's appointment as embas-
sador to St. Petersburg. or to some other prom
inent diplomatic or army position are entirely
grounjess. He says: ''Boulanger desires moth
ing more than he has had; he wants to work for
much of gentleman to truckle for favor; al
together his record is one of the cleanest and
most perfect that any French politician has had
since Gambetta's time
AT recent sale of the effects of Benz. T.
Barton q jsweler of Alexandria, Va. a prize
was secured by Mr. Louis Brill, who purchased for
the sum of 10 cents a watch which was the prop
erty of the famous Daniel Webster. The watch
is one of those large. clumsy. old fashioned.
open faced concerns common during the early
part of this century; the dial plate is OF porce-
lain, and the hours indicated By figures in